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Oskar Lafontaine

1943 - Today

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Oskar Lafontaine (German pronunciation: [ˈɔskaʁ lafõˈtɛːn, -fɔnˈ-]; born 16 September 1943) is a German politician. He served as Minister-President of the state of Saarland from 1985 to 1998 and was federal leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1995 to 1999. He was the lead candidate for the SPD in the 1990 German federal election, but lost by a wide margin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Lafontaine has received more than 475,614 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Oskar Lafontaine is the 4,381st most popular politician (up from 5,680th in 2019), the 1,188th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,587th in 2019) and the 341st most popular German Politician.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 4,381 out of 19,576. Before him are Mihnea cel Rău, Ertuğrul Osman, Bernard of Italy, Blanche II of Navarre, Emperor Ingyō, and Yelü Chucai. After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, Amalia of Oldenburg, Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine, Al-Muhtadi, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and Saad Zaghloul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 97. Before him are Fouad Siniora, Jacques Attali, Paul Van Himst, George Benson, Ken Thompson, and Max Wright. After him are Ri Chun-hee, Reinaldo Arenas, Jacques Laffite, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Ulay, and Mustafa Dzhemilev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 1,188 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), August Landmesser (1910), Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833), Marianne Bachmeier (1950), Vasily Radlov (1837), and Georg Böhm (1661). After him are Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Erich Heckel (1883), Alfred von Waldersee (1832), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany (1227), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), and Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Oskar Lafontaine ranks 341. Before him are Carl Clauberg (1898), Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826), Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (1575), Franz Josef Strauss (1915), Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1785), and August Landmesser (1910). After him are Amalia of Oldenburg (1818), Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1907), Franz Seldte (1882), Margot Honecker (1927), Wilhelm Stuckart (1902), and Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1473).

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